sacramento bureau reporter for "the san francisco chronicle." wyatt, let's begin with you. it's been a few days since state legislators found out they're not going to get paid until they passed a balanced budget. how do they like working for free? >> they don't. nobody is happy about this decision, but the reactions came in different ways from different folks. mostly democrats came out and criticized it. republicans stayed either quiet or said, you know, okay, this is -- we're okay with this decision. we need a budget. there were a few democrats who said that, too, but there were some really fiery language from some democrats. >> now, of course, the state controller is a democrat, and just as they were unhappy with jerry brown's veto, they're also unhappy with the controller's decision. what did john chiang say was the reason for withholding their pay. >> what he did was took a look at the budget as it was passed, added up what they said, you know, was to be spent by the state, added up what the revenues were and said, these don't match. the biggest -- it was about $1.85 bi